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Tintcard Alcove

Behind the warehouses a striped awning shades a fan of colour cards pinned to the bricks, brush jars on an upturned crate and a spattered smock on its hook. The calmest world on the wharf, and a blank paid spin with a wild showing keeps it for a free second go.

25 linesSticky wild respinLow volatilityFree account worldCoin RTP 96.1%
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The workshops are free and will remain so. A mooring tag keeps your 100,000 coins, favourites, level and daily missions from one visit to the next — and allows us to confirm you are 18 or over before your first spin.

  • 100,000 free coins in a newly creased tag
  • No card field and no cashier’s page on any part of the wharf
  • A single purse for each workshop you open
  • No download needed — the wharf runs in your browser

Paper coins, all of them virtual. No real-money gambling, no prize of real-world value, no in-app purchases. 18+.

Ottoline will not ask for a card or bank details, and there is nothing on the wharf to buy. Coins carry no real-world value and cannot, by any route, be turned into cash.

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About this world

Tintcard Alcove

Tintcard Alcove sits in Tinter's Passage, the brick lane where the wharf's painters mix the dyes for every folded boat, festoon bulbs glowing overhead as evening comes in. Blue Masking Rolls, Tint Fans and Bristle Jars share out most of the returns, so the balance moves softly, and the Loaded Palette and the Violet Bow Sables pay the most. The Stroke Tile wild covers any picture bar the Yellow Roller Tray. If a paid spin comes up blank with a wild on view, Wet Paint Hold leaves every wild drying in its square and gives the rest of the alcove a fresh coat, free. Three roller trays unroll ten free spins; four trays give the walls fifteen, five give them twenty-five.

Wet Paint Hold. If a paid spin returns nothing while one or more Stroke Tile wilds are on the reels, those wilds stay wet in their squares and every other square is repainted once, free of charge.

The honest part

Paper coins and nothing else

Everything on this page is played with free virtual coins. The wharf has no real-money gambling, no win of real-world value and no in-app purchases. Results are drawn by a random number generator, and no past spin influences the next.

Measured by running this page's own engine for 10,000,000 spins: coin RTP 96.1%, hit frequency 46.7%, free spins about once in 110 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 131 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.

How to play

Tintcard Alcove in three steps

1

Sign in, walk round the back of the warehouses into Tinter's Passage and set a stake.

2

Spin. The Stroke Tile wild copies any picture except the Yellow Roller Tray, and if a paid spin comes back empty while a wild is in view, Wet Paint Hold keeps the wilds and spins everything else once, free.

3

Three Yellow Roller Trays roll out ten free spins; with four trays the coat runs on for fifteen, with five for twenty-five.

Who it suits

Evening players who prefer a slow, even session of little returns, with a free second look whenever a spin dries blank.

What to expect

The gentlest balance on the wharf. Small wins land often, and Wet Paint Hold softens some of the empty paid spins between them.

Symbol guide

What pays in Tintcard Alcove

Folded symbolFive matched along one paylineEquivalent share of the stake
Stroke Tile (wild)4,000× line bet160× your stake
Violet Bow Sables2,000× line bet80× your stake
Loaded Palette1,000× line bet40× your stake
Bristle Jar600× line bet24× your stake
Tint Fan400× line bet16× your stake
Blue Masking Roll240× line bet9.6× your stake

The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three Yellow Roller Trays anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.

Questions

About Tintcard Alcove

Any paid spin that comes up empty with a Stroke Tile wild somewhere in view. Those wilds stay pinned while every other square is repainted once, free.

No. It only wakes on paid spins; the free round runs on without it.

No. The Yellow Roller Tray is the scatter, and wilds in the passage never replace scatters.

Today's missions

Four errands from Ottoline’s satchel

Missions are renewed each day and count in every workshop. Taking them on is entirely optional.

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No purchasesNo in-app purchases. Every coin is free.

Play for enjoyment, and stop when the enjoyment does. Fix a time limit before you begin and take regular breaks. Should gambling of any sort be causing you difficulty, the National Gambling Helpline is free and confidential on 0808 8020 133 at every hour, and GamCare and BeGambleAware can help too. The wharf’s responsible play policy gives the detail.

18+

Every coin on this wharf is folded paper: a free social casino, and at no point real-money gambling.

On Creasewater Wharf the towpath is for those aged 18 or over. Each regatta, alcove and kiln runs on virtual coins with no monetary value, which nobody can buy, sell, withdraw or exchange. You will not find a cashier’s hatch, a payment page or a prize of real-world value anywhere along the canal, and a fine afternoon at the regatta does not imply future success at real-money gambling.

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